Gene Hackman
Actor · Producer · CrewEugene Allen Hackman (January 30, 1930 – c. February 18, 2025) was an American actor. Hackman made his credited film debut in the drama Lilith (1964). He later won two Academy Awards, his first for Best Actor for his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in William Friedkin's action thriller The French Connection (1971) and his second for Best Supporting Actor for playing a sheriff in Clint Eastwood's Western Unforgiven (1992). He was Oscar-nominated for playing Buck Barrow in the crime drama Bonnie and Clyde (1967), a college professor in the drama I Never Sang for My Father (1970), and an FBI agent in the historical drama Mississippi Burning (1988).
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The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special
2025
Self (archive footage)
Breakdown: 1975
2025
(archive footage)
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024
Self (archive footage)
- Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021
Self (archive footage)
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
2019
Self (archive footage)
Pattern Recognition
2017
Self (archive footage)
We, the Marines
2017
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima
2016
Self - Narrator
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014
Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013
Self
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
Self
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
2008
Self
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006
Lex Luthor
Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
2005
Narrator (voice)
Welcome to Mooseport
2004
Monroe Cole
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004
Narrator
Runaway Jury
2003
Rankin Fitch
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2002
Self
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002
Self
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
2002
Self
Heartbreakers
2001
William B. Tensy
Heist
2001
Joe Moore
The Mexican
2001
Arnold Margolese
Behind Enemy Lines
2001
Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001
Royal Tenenbaum
With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
2001
Self
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
2001
Lex Luthor (archive footage)
Heroes of Iwo Jima
2001
Self - Host/Narrator
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
2001
Self
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
2001
Self
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
2001
Self
Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe
2001
Himself/Narrator
Under Suspicion
2000
Henry Hearst
The Replacements
2000
Jimmy McGinty
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000
Self
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
2000
Self
- Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
1999
Narrator (voice)
Antz
1998
General Mandible (voice)
Twilight
1998
Jack Ames
Enemy of the State
1998
Brill
Absolute Power
1997
President Richmond
Sports on the Silver Screen
1997
Self (archive footage)
The Birdcage
1996
Senator Kevin Keeley
Extreme Measures
1996
Dr. Lawrence Myrick
The Chamber
1996
Sam Cayhall
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
1996
Blind Man (archive footage)
Get Shorty
1995
Harry Zimm
The Quick and the Dead
1995
Herod
Crimson Tide
1995
Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey
The Making of 'Crimson Tide'
1995
Self
Wyatt Earp
1994
Nicholas Earp
Shurtleff on Acting
1994
Self
Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
1994
Self
Geronimo: An American Legend
1993
Brig. Gen. George Crook
The Firm
1993
Avery Tolar
Unforgiven
1992
'Little' Bill Daggett
Earth and the American Dream
1992
Reader (voice)
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
1992
Self
Company Business
1991
Sam Boyd
Class Action
1991
Jedediah Tucker Ward
Postcards from the Edge
1990
Lowell Kolchek
Narrow Margin
1990
Robert Caulfield
Loose Cannons
1990
MacArthur Stern
The Package
1989
Sgt. Johnny Gallagher
Mississippi Burning
1988
Agent Rupert Anderson
Another Woman
1988
Larry
Full Moon in Blue Water
1988
Floyd
Bat★21
1988
Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton
Split Decisions
1988
Dan McGuinn
No Way Out
1987
Defense Secretary David Brice
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987
Lex Luthor
Hoosiers
1986
Norman Dale
Power
1986
Wilfred Buckley
Target
1985
Walter Lloyd
Twice in a Lifetime
1985
Harry MacKenzie
Uncommon Valor
1983
Col. Cal Rhodes
Under Fire
1983
Alex Grazier
Eureka
1983
Jack McCann
Misunderstood
1983
Ned Rawley
The Making of 'Superman II'
1983
Self
Two of a Kind
1983
God (voice) (uncredited)
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
1982
Self
Reds
1981
Pete van Wherry
All Night Long
1981
George Dupler
Superman II
1980
Lex Luthor
Superman
1978
Lex Luthor
Formula 1 - Speed fever
1978
Self
A Bridge Too Far
1977
Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski
The Domino Principle
1977
Tucker
March or Die
1977
Major William Sherman Foster
French Connection II
1975
"Popeye" Doyle
Night Moves
1975
Harry Moseby
Bite the Bullet
1975
Sam Clayton
Lucky Lady
1975
Kibby
The Conversation
1974
Harry Caul
Young Frankenstein
1974
Blindman
Zandy's Bride
1974
Zandy Allen
Scarecrow
1973
Max Millan
On the Road with: Scarecrow
1973
Self
The Poseidon Adventure
1972
Reverend Scott
Prime Cut
1972
Mary Ann
Cisco Pike
1972
Officer Leo Holland
The French Connection
1971
Jimmy Doyle
The Hunting Party
1971
Brandt Ruger
Doctors' Wives
1971
Dave Randolph
I Never Sang for My Father
1970
Gene Garrison
Downhill Racer
1969
Eugene Claire
Marooned
1969
Buzz Lloyd
The Gypsy Moths
1969
Joe Browdy
Riot
1969
Red Fraker
The Sky Divers
1969
Self
The Split
1968
Lt. Walter Brill
Shadow on the Land
1968
Rev. Thomas Davis
Bonnie and Clyde
1967
Buck Barrow
A Covenant with Death
1967
Harmsworth
First to Fight
1967
Sergeant Tweed
Banning
1967
Tommy Del Gaddo
Hawaii
1966
John Whipple
Lilith
1964
Norman
Mad Dog Coll
1961
Cop (uncredited)
